EXHIBIT 54


             SAFETY-KLEEN ANNOUNCES FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT ACTION

     ELGIN, Ill - March 6, 1998 - Safety-Kleen Corp. announced today that the 
Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied Laidlaw 
Environmental's motion to require Safety-Kleen's Board to make its Rights 
Agreement, or poison pill, inapplicable to Laidlaw Environmental's exchange 
offer before the Safety-Kleen shareholders meeting scheduled for March 9, 1998. 
The Judge set another hearing for Thursday, March 12, 1998, to again consider 
the motion, after hearing testimony.

     Safety-Kleen has committed to the Court that if the SK Parent Merger is 
approved by shareholders at the reconvened special meeting on March 9, it will 
not close the Merger prior to March 16. Laidlaw Environmental has also committed
to the court that it will extend its exchange offer on its current terms through
March 16.